Thank you for joining us for episode 537 of Live Happy Now.

We talk a lot about how trauma can affect our mental health, but have you thought about what it's doing to your physical well-being?

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and this week I'm talking with Dr. Amy Apigian, author of The Biology of Trauma.

Dr. Amy is revolutionizing trauma healing by showing how our cells, not just our minds,

are storing trauma. Join us today as she explains some of the ways stored trauma can be wreaking

havoc on our relationships, our health, and even our careers, and then tells us what we can do

about it. Let's have a listen. Dr. Amy, thank you so much for joining me here today.

Thank you. It's really a pleasure to be here, and I'm really looking forward to this conversation.

You have such a great topic. It's one that I've seen addressed personally in my life,

but it's not something that I've seen widely addressed for the mainstream.

So let's start at the very baseline and tell us what you mean when you talk about the biology

of trauma. This is so true. It's not yet mainstream and yet I see it everywhere. So I am so

excited to talk about this. First and foremost, because for me, it's a message of everywhere. So I am so excited to talk about this.

First and foremost, because for me, it's a message of hope.

When I talk about trauma, it's not a message of doom and gloom and heaviness and sorrow.

I get excited because once we understand the science of it, it allows us to have tools that we haven't had before. It allows us to have a

path and a framework and places where we can now work with intention rather than just, well,

let me try this, let me try that and don't really know what I'm doing. And then we get stuck

and we get lost, which is what happened to me.

So my journey actually started truly when I became a foster parent.

And then I adopted.

And that experienced how little I knew about trauma.

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